It is pretty much a tautology that over time employment moves out of sectors where productivity outpaces demand (agriculture) and into sectors where demand outpaces productivity (health care)
>The jobs of the future will be increasingly people-facing, not because AI is incapable of impersonating a human, but because the AI’s effort isn’t scarce. Buying the time of a real person makes us feel important.
This has been already happening, due to outsourcing. I work in IT and I find out 90% is people stuff, like figuring out what customers actually want. The coding we can outsource to a country with low prices.
Nice piece here. What we call economic growth or progress is simply the discovery of new ways of arranging atoms in beneficial ways. This also requires better sources of energy. The underpinning of both: the accumulation of knowledge.
I see the agriculture revolution as the first “energy revolution” where we produced more food to feed more people, just enough such that some could specialize in areas other than agriculture.
The industrial revolution was a “second” energy revolution of sorts, where we learned how to harness fossil fuels, like coal, that did not compete with our bellies. This was crucial as it created an explosive feedback loop. More humans joined cities where scaling effects took over: https://www.lianeon.org/p/let-a-thousand-skyscrapers-bloom
This led to more knowledge, better use of atoms, yet more energy…etc.
Naturally, this also changed the nature of how we spend our money and the proportion of our resources devoted to agriculture, as illustrated here.
By design, most of us are technologically unemployed farmers.
It is pretty much a tautology that over time employment moves out of sectors where productivity outpaces demand (agriculture) and into sectors where demand outpaces productivity (health care)
>The jobs of the future will be increasingly people-facing, not because AI is incapable of impersonating a human, but because the AI’s effort isn’t scarce. Buying the time of a real person makes us feel important.
This has been already happening, due to outsourcing. I work in IT and I find out 90% is people stuff, like figuring out what customers actually want. The coding we can outsource to a country with low prices.
Nice piece here. What we call economic growth or progress is simply the discovery of new ways of arranging atoms in beneficial ways. This also requires better sources of energy. The underpinning of both: the accumulation of knowledge.
I see the agriculture revolution as the first “energy revolution” where we produced more food to feed more people, just enough such that some could specialize in areas other than agriculture.
The industrial revolution was a “second” energy revolution of sorts, where we learned how to harness fossil fuels, like coal, that did not compete with our bellies. This was crucial as it created an explosive feedback loop. More humans joined cities where scaling effects took over: https://www.lianeon.org/p/let-a-thousand-skyscrapers-bloom
This led to more knowledge, better use of atoms, yet more energy…etc.
Naturally, this also changed the nature of how we spend our money and the proportion of our resources devoted to agriculture, as illustrated here.
By design, most of us are technologically unemployed farmers.